A MINOR FIGURE

Jamie Weiss, Michael McCanne / 16’ / 2021 / Spain, USA

Direction: Michael McCanne, Jamie Weiss

Production: Michael McCanne, Jamie Weiss

Editing: Jamie Weiss

Cinematography: Jamie Weiss

Sound: Juan Carlos Blancas

1988. A Japanese man enters the United States on a fake passport. Ronald Reagan tours a collapsing Soviet Union. A road trip through rural America ends in a terrorism arrest outside of New York City. What becomes of those lost to the currents of history? Do they leave some traces behind, or do they simply disappear?

MICHAEL MCCANNE. He was a 2017 fellow at Tent: Creative Writing at The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA, a 2018 resident at the Mount Lebanon Residency in New Lebanon, NY, and a 2020 grant recipient from the Wave Farm/NYSCA Media Arts Assistance Fund.

JAMIE WEISS. His work has been shown at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba, Brazil, and has received support from the NY State Council on the Arts.

 

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